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Accepted: 30 March 2023

First Online: 8 April 2023

Declarations

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: The author has no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.

: I have participated in the 34th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care “Diversity and Bioethics” in Warsaw, Poland, from 24–27 August 2022, where I presented the paper “Healing at a distance: Phenomenological perspective on the quality of the patient-health care provider relationship in teleconsultation”. The conference abstract was published in the Book of Abstracts (p. 37). URL: The article published here was prepared based on this conference paper.

: Research project “Healing at a distance: Phenomenological analysis of patient experience of clinical encounter in telemedicine” (No. 1.1.1.2/VIAA/4/20/622), within which this article is prepared, has received approval by the University of Latvia Human and Social Sciences Ethics Committee (approval number: 30-95/6).

: All participants of the study were informed about the nature of the study, possible benefits and risks, confidentiality and data management among other things, and they have given their consent to participate in it. The consent form was approved by the University of Latvia Human and Social Sciences Ethics Committee (approval number: 30–95/6).